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Sophia Learning. License agreement creative commons. Creative Commons. Free Online Courses, Workplace Skills Training, Interactive Education and Multimedia Learning | ALISON. Thank you for your interest in K¹²

14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons. Free and Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning. As an e-Learning consultant I was always a fan of open source software. Why? The answer is simple. Because I could use them as I wish, for whatever I wish, without long-term commitments and with the extra bonus of a community of professionals that use, extend and support them. In this post I am not going to talk about open source learning management systems such as eFront[1] but rather dedicated open source “authoring tools”. The list that it follows is not in particular order. I highly encourage you to leave a comment if you know any other open source authoring tool. => If you know a free or open source authoring tool that is not included in the list I will highly appreciate if you write a comment with a link! Free & Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning What2Learn makes it easy for e-Learning developers to create interactive games and quizzes and track learners’ attainment.

Xical.org ClassTools.net eXe Wink CourseLab Quandary Hot Potatoes. 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | MindShift - StumbleUpon. This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare. The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.”

We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. Repositories. Xerte - Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools. The Xerte Project aims to provide high quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers. The project began in 2004 at the University of Nottingham and Xerte Online Toolkits was released under an open-source license in 2009. A global Xerte Community has since thrived and the project transitioned to become part of the Apereo Foundation in 2015. Millions of learners and tens of thousands of teachers and tutors now have access to Xerte in hundreds of universities, colleges, schools and organisations all over the world.

Core Values The Xerte Project places three values above all else: Ease of Use Rapid content authoring for all levels of skill. Accessibility Best of breed accessibility for interactive learning. A Global Community We are a friendly and positive global community of users and developers working together to produce high quality tools for the creation of media rich, interactive and highly accessible elearning content.

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